Doing Visual Research with Children and Young People

Visual media offer powerful communication opportunities. Doing Visual Research with Children and Young People explores the methodological, ethical, representational and theoretical issues surrounding image-based research with children and young people and provides well-argued and illustrated resources to guide novice and experienced researchers through the challenges as well as the benefits of visual research.New digital technologies have made it easier and cheaper to work with visual media. Pat Thomson brings together researchers from an international body of researchers working at the forefront of the field with a range of media to produce research data and communicate findings. Situating their discussions of visual research approaches within the context of actual research projects in communities and schools, the book offers practical pointers to the conduct of research and covers a range of important issues including: why use visual research how to involve children and young people as co''‚¬"researchers complexities in analysis of images and the ethics of working visually institutional difficulties that can arise when working with a ''‚¬~visual voice', discussion of a range of media including drawings and painting, collage and montages, film and video, photographs and mew media texts and a guide to resources. Doing Visual Research with Children and Young Children will be an ideal guide for researchers both at undergraduate and postgraduate level across discipline including education, youth and social work, health and nursing, criminology and community studies. It will also act as an up-to-minute resource on this rapidly changing approach for practitioners working in the field.Thomson, Pat is the author of 'Doing Visual Research with Children and Young People' with ISBN 9780415431101 and ISBN 0415431107.